Oracle Magazine, September/October 2018

INTERVIEW ORACLE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2018 17 to control both the front end and the back end When the same developer is responsible for the application front end and back end thats a fullstack developer a developer jack of all trades This kind of general expertise across the front end and back end would have been difficult in the past but now in the cloud a lot of things are much easier than they used to be For example getting installing configuring and provisioning a new on premises server used to require a purchase order approvals delivery installation and a lot more But today I can simply go to cloud oracle com or my favorite cloud infrastructure provider and within minutes get access to infrastructure components and an operating system on a server What the cloud has done for the traditional back end responsibilities means that todays full stack cloud developer can do in minutes the things that used to take days weeks and months That opportunity has also contributed to the rise of the full stack developer Oracle Magazine Organizations are successfully using open source such as JavaScript Node js and other dev frameworks How do open source frameworks work with Oracle Database Hichwa Its important for Oracle Database to support any and all clients and we make sure that we support everything thats popular Oracle Database doesnt have a favorite client We want to support every client as best we can so we have database drivers for every popular language including Node js You can also get drivers for PHP Python C C PHP Argo you name it You can go to the database application development page on oracle com and youll find pointers to all the drivers and all the links to gain access to each driver The popularity of open source frameworks and languages is also great for developer productivity Members of the open source developer community who are from different companies and regions and who are working on different types of projects contribute lots of code examples on places such as GitHub their blogs and other locations they share And then as those developers gain experience they often publish their own best practices or frameworks that allow other developers to do things more easily Developers dont need to build stuff from scratch they can pick up and start

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